Storm the Festival
Sorcery
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put up to two permanent cards with mana value 5 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14781
Storm the Festival puts up to two permanents directly onto the battlefield for six mana — creatures, enchantments, or lands, no casting cost required — which means the card pays for itself the moment either hit lands something worth four or more. The ceiling is enormous and the floor is low enough that running it in any green deck topping out at four-plus mana is a straightforward call.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tovolar, Dire Overlord
Tovolar, Dire Overlord runs a Wolf and Werewolf tribal gameplan stacked with expensive permanent payoffs, and Storm the Festival's ability to cheat two of them into play at once — skipping cast triggers but landing bodies for the attack — gives the deck a mid-game acceleration tool that no single ramp spell can match.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Storm the Festival does its best work: 100-card singleton decks are built around high-impact permanents, and flipping two of them for six mana at instant speed is the kind of tempo swing that wins games. In Modern and Pioneer it's a fringe consideration at best — those formats move too fast for a six-mana sorcery-speed gamble, and the payoffs have to be extraordinary to justify the slot. Legacy and Vintage have access to broken enough targets that Storm the Festival is technically interesting, but faster and more consistent cheating effects crowd it out. Commander is its home, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current price data isn't available for Storm the Festival, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor before picking up copies. Given its raw power ceiling in Commander, any price under a few dollars is an easy pickup for green decks with a high-CMC permanent density.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tovolar, Dire Overlord
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.